Category: Missions

For more than 200 years, London has been a repository for some of the globe’s most remarkable cultural treasures. Friends embrace during Refugee Week, an annual event celebrating refugees’ cultural contributions to the U.K. Events highlighted refugees’ influences in the arts, music and food, and allowed networking among ethnicities. In an hour’s stroll through the…

As you’re reading this, I’m in Italy leading a Southern Seminary study tour through Rome. In the past two days, I’ve spent time praying in Saint John Lateran Cathedral here, and in the ruins of the ancient Christian catacombs. It struck me that we Christians sometimes forget the paradoxical grace of God in giving us…

President Barack Obama might have known better than to have picked a fight with Catholics. History would tell him that they rarely lose. During the 1920s, Mexican President Plutarco Elías Calles found that out the hard way. As this year’s historical epic For Greater Glory shows, Catholics don’t give up without a long and bloody…

Why do you want to fight in the war? The blunt question sprang suddenly into Jasmin’s mind, surprising the spiritually seeking Croatian soldier with its clarity. It happened in 1991, at the start of the war in the former Yugoslavia. He responded, “I want to fight for good, to defend my country. I want to…

“Be the last of a dying breed, it’s time that we man up.” That’s the last line of the new “Man Up Anthem” from Christian rap group 116 Clique. The song is just one sliver of a growing campaign launched last year by rapper Lecrae, 32, and his Reach Records in Atlanta, to get young…

In the March issue of Credo Magazine, “Make Disciples of All Nations,” we interviewed Kenneth Stewart, Professor of Theological Studies at Covenant College and the author of Ten Myths About Calvinism (IVP). Here is what Ken had to say about Calvinism and Missions… Calvinism is largely anti-missionary. True or False? It is historically false. Surprisingly,…

Brazil is sending the second highest number of missionaries to the rest of the world, according to the director of a Global Christianity study organisation. Of 400,000 global missionaries that were sent to foreign countries in 2010, Brazil sent 34,000, second behind the United States, which sent 127,000. The statistics were presented by Todd Johnson,…

A missionary from Manmin, a Korean Megachurch, spoke about challenges that face Christians in China (name is not published for her safety). She said that in communist China, there are two churches: one is underground and consists of believers who are persecuted, and the other is the official church which is recognized and controlled by…

A new historical feature film is being prepared to mark next year’s 1150th anniversary of the arrival of Christian missionaries SS Cyril and Methodius in Great Moravia and the beginnings of Christianity in Bohemia and Moravia, the film authors and church dignitaries told journalists yesterday. The film will be made by Petr Nikolaev. It is…

Jessica Buchanan, the woman rescued from Somalia bandits by U.S. special forces, is so dedicated to helping others that she sold all of her belongings to become a missionary in Somalia. Buchanan, 32, was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. She graduated from Valley Forge University, a Christian college in Phoenixville, Pa., in 2007. She was a…

Jane was in the middle of explaining how God had called her family to one of the toughest areas in Central Asia when the Skype connection went dead. A few minutes later their backup generator kicked on, the couple called back and the conversation resumed. Jane and Jack, who are unable to use their real…

At a concert in Salt Lake City last week, pop star David Archuleta of American Idol fame made an unexpected and emotional announcement. After a couple of years of skirting questions about it, he revealed that he will indeed serve a two-year mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, though he hasn’t…

Winston Churchill knew that there comes a time in any military campaign when playing safe and exhibiting caution simply won’t work. This is why, he later confided, he’d lost confidence in General Claude Auchinleck, the man in charge of the North Africa campaign in 1942: to rout Rommel, only all-out aggression would do. So Churchill…

Forbes Magazine has just recognized Gleaning For The World, a faith-based humanitarian organization, as the most efficient charity in the United States. This marks the third time that Gleaning For The World has been honored by Forbes. More than 200 charities were evaluated in Forbes’ annual study, including World Vision, the American Red Cross, Campus…

Pakistan’s tiny and downtrodden Christian community thought big when constructing its latest church — a domed, three-story building that towers over the sprawling slum it serves and is the largest yet in the violent, Muslim country. St. Peter’s of Karachi, which opened its doors this month and can fit around 5,000 people, is a sign…

Pro-life advocates were dealt a hard blow last night after Bible Belt voters in Mississippi defeated the so-called “personhood” initiative. But abortion opponents appear undeterred, saying that they’re still pursuing life-at-fertilization ballot initiatives in six other states following the major loss. While aired prior to yesterday’s polling results, the following NBC video provides an overview…

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